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You could probably do the textDecode once on the full XML data before parsing.

I don't understand your post, Dr White. Many thousands of people are able to use LiveCode well. What is the specific issue you've experienced? Xcode versions do not normally come into play at all for anything in LiveCode except when building app for iOS. Maintaining compatibility with Apple's requir...

I didn't realize Open Street Maps had such excellent topo renderings. Thanks for posting that.

The easiest way is to put an LC Server script on your server that returns $REMOTE_ADDR.

What will you be doing with it?

jiml wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:42 am

- What do you want them to do?
- How much will it cost to do it?
- How much will that make by doing it?

I'd add a question between 1 and 2. Do they want to do it?

I would think that would depend on the answer to #3.

Find a bad link is the first step. The reason so many sites, even big ones like Apple, sometimes have link rot is deciding what to do about it. If you made a policy of telling submitters that any change to the URL will have the submission tossed, the whole thing can be automated. But sometimes URLs ...

Link rot is a problem for any site with longevity.

Would it help if you had a team to lend a hand checking those things?

Well, with the ability to either pop out the windows or not, don't you have the best of both worlds? Depending on how it's done it may be a patent infringement. ;) Erm, that is how every IDE back to Rev 3 has had it ? i.e., it is already in there... ...but not as a tear-off window. Never mind me, I...

Most excellent, Andy. Thanks for taking that on, and to Peter for stewarding its creation.

I suppose if we isolate portability from other considerations, and reframe the OP's discussion to be strictly a comparison with library-based methods, one can indeed make a plausible argument that they're a wash. My intention was to outline the benefits of behaviors, and portability in the context I...

bogs wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:42 pm

Well, with the ability to either pop out the windows or not, don't you have the best of both worlds?

Depending on how it's done it may be a patent infringement.

The variables used to be in a separate window. People said it was too fiddly.

Hard to come up with a design that pleases a diverse audience.

Fortunately, with the IDE being all scripted, we have many options for tooling to choose from.

Sometimes I use behaviors. Sometimes I don't.

There's nothing religious here.

LiveCode is very flexible.

Use what works for you in the task at hand.

Then what is all this about mightily advancing the OOP model for LC? Simply that increase in elegance? The benefits of behaviors may be summarized as efficiency, flexibility, and portability. Efficiency is achieved by not having to evaluate whether a message applies to an object, as a global script...

Changing the state of unrendered objects is not usually a bottleneck.

I'll bet there's a way we can speed that up if we see the code.